Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several times a week I place orders with New York firms for goods of perishable nature, and the orders, placed by air mail, are delivered in our receiving room exactly 14 days to a day after the order is mailed. Several days faster than you state, and this service is available daily by Mr. Shoup's Southern Pacific as well as the Santa...
With only a small delay Statesman Stimson despatched instructions to the U. S. Embassy at Havana to inquire into Mr. Barlow's arrest, to discover if "his surroundings were bearable." Before this order could reach Havana, Mr. Barlow was out of jail...
...owned by Spinster Sallie Baldwin of Baltimore. When the union hands struck, the mill closed down. Unionization spread to the mills of the Clinchfield Co. which also shut down temporarily. When Clinchfield tried to reopen, strikers massed before the gates, manhandled the superintendent. Guardsmen were sent in to restore order. Mill owners commenced to eject union strikers from company houses...
Before the week was out 5,000 British troops commanded by Brigadier General William George Shedden Dobbie were in Palestine, mightfully striving to restore order and protect not only the large cities but such strategic towns as El Abadiyeh and Jur-el-Mujami (see map), twin sites of the chief generating stations of the Palestine Power Trust, founded and managed by famed, dynamic Zionist Pincus Rutenberg (TIME, Mar. 4). Neither bristling, florid, militant General Dobbie nor the cold, curt High Commissioner made the smallest vestige of an answer to the week's most vital question: Why were not adequate...
Even more startling was a resolution adopted by the General Confederation of Mexican Workers, a potent radical labor group. Denouncing "restrictions on the right to strike and dangers to workmen in the so-called 'Labor' code," the confederation resolved "to exhort all affiliated labor groups throughout the country to order partial stoppages of work and finally a general strike if Senor Fortes Gil's project is insisted...